A Thousand Shades of Green

Christopher Butt

Originally from Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador, Christopher Butt is a retired member of the Canadian Forces navigating his way to a life of being a writer. His genres include Science Fiction, Fantasy, weird fiction and the occasional humorous piece. 
 His first collection of short stories, “In the Lair of the Kraken” was published in January 2024. He is currently working on his second collection.
Christopher lives in St. Catharines with his wife, Angela. You can find his work on his Wattpad page under the name “Buttster” and on Darkwinterlit.ca

Hiram Larew

Patchy Way, Larew’s sixth collection, was published in 2023 by CyberWit Press.  As founder of Poetry X Hunger, he is bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause.  www.HiramLarewPoetry.com and www.PoetryXHunger.com

Fidel Hogan Walsh

Fidel’s words have been performed, published & shared wildly. 
A limited edition of ‘Words on Water, nature-inspired poems produced for National Heritage week 2023 (Friends of Castle lake Catchment). Is the perfect marriage between poetry, nature & science.
She has two full collections ‘Living with Love’ & ‘Time’ (‘Time’ was named in the top 10 non-fiction of 2020 by Dublin City Libraries). Her short stories can be found in ‘Thrice Remembered – An Anthology of Cavan Writings’.
Collaborations that Inspire is a series of Fidel’s poems paired with various artists.

Robert Frede Kenter

Robert Frede Kenter is a multiple Pushcart-nominated poet,  a BOTN nominee, a writer of experimental prose, a performer, an editor, a visual artist, a multiple grant recipient, book designer & EIC/Publisher of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net). Books include FATHER TECTONIC (forthcoming, Ethel Zine Press, 2025), & hybrid collections, EDEN (2021), & Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press, 2019). Robert’s in many anthologies incl. Shine #1 (2024 publ. by Samantha Terrell), Kireji /Cutting Words (Nun Prophet Press, 2024), After Hours: Beat Culture Made New (Broken Spine Press, 2024).  The Book of Penteract (Penteract Press, 2022), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Reformatting the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time #1 (Black Bough Press, 2021),  & numerous Fevers Of The Mind anthologies incl.: The Chelsea Underground (2023) for John Cale, Warhol & the Factory. Recent journals: Cable Street, Harpy Hybrid, Storms Journal, Cutbow Q, Street Cake,  Feral, Erato, Setu, WatchYrHead, Visual Verse, & others. Robert contributed poetry to the recent 40th anniversary exhibition for the band, Bronski Beat (UK).   

Merril D. Smith

Merril D. Smith lives in southern New Jersey near the Delaware River. Her work has been published widely in poetry journals and anthologies, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, Feral, Sidhe Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Storms, Fevers of the Mind, Gleam, Humana Obscura, and Nightingale and Sparrow. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from Temple University in Philadelphia and is the author/editor of numerous books on gender, sexuality, and history. Her full-length poetry collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was Black Bough Poetry’s December 2022 Book of the Month.  
Twitter/X: @merril_mds  
Instagram: mdsmithnj  
https://merrildsmith.org/
 

Eileen Carney Hulme

Eileen Carney Hulme is inspired by the big skies and deserted beaches near her home in Findhorn in the north east of Scotland.
Over 25 years as well as 4 books she has had hundreds of poems published in magazines, anthologies and ezines.
She has been a winner, runner up or commended in numerous poetry competitions including The Crimson Spine Competition, The Cupid’s Arrow Competition, The Brian Nisbet Poetry Award, The Federation of Writers Scotland Competition and The Scottish Association of Writers Write up North Competition.  She has read at many poetry events and her work has been set to music, most notably a score was completed by Dr Mark Keane musical director of multi award winning Tribal Chamber Choir and performed at Cork City Hall. Eileen has also been a poet in residence in a gallery where she offered ekphrastic workshops.

Patricia M. Osborne

Patricia M. Osborne is married with three grown-up children and six grandchildren. She was born in Liverpool but now lives in West Sussex. In February 2019, she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing via the University of Brighton. She is a novelist, poet, and short story writer. When she's not working on her own writing, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and acts as a mentor to fellow writers.  In 2017 she was a Poet in Residence at a local Victorian Park in Crawley and her poetry was exhibited throughout the park. In 2019 her poetry was on display at Crawley Museum.  Patricia has had numerous poems and short stories published in various literary magazines and anthologies. You can find her books here.. 

Vitor Vicente

Vitor Vicente is a Portuguese author who has lived abroad since 2006, between Spain, Ireland, Poland and Hungary, and currently resides in Dublin. 
He is the author of 12 published books, with the theme of travelling running through all his work. His latest title is the poetry collection "Harry Kernoff's Guest", which also contains reproductions of the paintings that inspired the writing. 
He collaborates with The Echo with a sports column.

Julie Stevens

Julie Stevens writes poems that cover many themes, but often engages with the problems of disability. She is widely published in places such as Ink Sweat & Tears, Broken Sleep Books and The Honest Ulsterman. She has three published pamphlets: Step into the Dark (2023), Balancing Act (2021) both with The Hedgehog Poetry Press, and Quicksand ( Dreich  2020)
. www.jumpingjulespoetry.com    
Twitter @julesjumping, Facebook @Julie Stevens, Instagram @jumpingjulespoetry
 

Vikki C

Vikki C. is a London-born award-nominated writer, poet, musician and author of ‘The Art of Glass Houses’ (Alien Buddha Press, 2022) and 'Where Sands Run Finest’ (DarkWinter Press, 2024).
 
Vikki’s poetry and fiction are published/forthcoming in Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, Amethyst Review, EcoTheo Review, Dust Poetry Magazine, Stone Circle Review, Ballast Journal, ONE ART Poetry, Sweet Literary, Emerge Journal, The Hyacinth Review, Harpy Hybrid Review, Cable Street, Boats Against The Current, Salò Press, The Belfast Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, Ice Floe Press, Black Bough Poetry, DarkWinter Lit,  The Broken Spine, Acropolis Journal, The Winged Moon, New Feathers Anthology, Nightingale & Sparrow, Ellipsis Zine, Origami Poems, Lazuli Literary Group, Across The Margin and Igneus Press among others.
 
Her writing has been nominated for ‘Best of the Net’ and the ‘Orison Best Spiritual Literature’. 
 
Twitter: @VWC_Writes
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
Soundcloud: Vikki C. Music
https://on.soundcloud.com/TJcu1